Efeito da criação de delegacias especializadas em atendimento a mulher em combinação com a Lei Maria da Penha para a redução da violência doméstica no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This paper evaluates the effect of specialized police stations for women (DEAM) in combination with the Maria da Penha Law, that aims to propose new means to reduce domestic violence, in Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul. First, the study will describe what is defined as a specialized police stations for women and its importance along the years. The research will also deal with the Maria da Penha Law, describing what changes it introduced in Brazilian material and procedural legislation, and the effect of such legislative provisions into law. Following, it’ll shown economic analysis models and empirical results. The model is a differences-in-differences regression, considering the specialized police stations as binary variables to measure the effect of such measures in the reduction of female victims homicides inside home, controlled by population, number of marriages, separations, divorce and local violence (measured as number of drug possession crimes).